A Journalistic Break Through

Social Media in Journalistic Inquiry - Requirements for a Search System incorporating Journalistic Quality Criteria

Social media allow journalists to incorporate additional information into their journalistic inquiry. However, journalists often cannot be certain of the quality of information from social media. IS research has yet to sufficiently address this issue. Most notably, there is no information system that supports searching for social media content about a specific topic while considering journalist...

Social and Journalistic Changes

Measuring Text Reuse in a Journalistic Domain

This paper describes a general framework for measuring text reuse. This term is used to describe how content from a single or multiple number of known sources can be reused either verbatim (word-for-word copy) or otherwise rewritten depending upon factors influencing the creation of a new document. These may include reduction/ increase in length, change of style, simplification of content, shif...

Time for Break: Understanding Information Workers’ Sedentary Behavior Through a Break Prompting System

Extended periods of uninterrupted sedentary behavior are detrimental to long-term health. While prolonged sitting is prevalent among information workers, it is difficult for them to break prolonged sedentary behavior due to the nature of their work. This work aims to understand information workers’ intentions & practices around standing or moving breaks. We developed Time for Break, a break pro...

A gain from break: Re-boosting prolonged-sitting computer users’ momentum through intermittent computer break program

With rapid evolution of computer and the Internet technologies, e-learning has become a prevalent learning style for students and learners in different professional fields nowadays because of its convenience and flexibility along with the variety of embedded multimedia applications. In the meanwhile, in response to the potential health risk of extended computer use, many ergonomics training met...